Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i7-6600U vs Athlon Silver 3050U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon Silver 3050U beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-6600U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6600U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Also, the Core i7-6600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.